Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!oliveb!pyramid!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (MAY 87) Message-ID: <10153@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 11:48:59 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10153 Posted: Mon Jun 1 11:48:59 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 01:57:47 EDT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:161 news.groups:916 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide. | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month) | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 7900 614 90% 1120 2637.0 141 1.60 4.3% soc.women 2 12000 899 97% 828 3049.5 69 1.20 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 3 5200 407 89% 498 1159.7 95 1.10 2.8% talk.politics.misc 4 1700 136 71% 178 383.4 105 1.10 1.0% sci.philosophy.tech 5 3700 291 90% 240 765.6 64 0.99 2.0% talk.religion.misc 6 6100 476 77% 35 1174.2 5 0.92 3.3% comp.binaries.mac 7 3700 289 96% 62 688.2 16 0.89 2.0% comp.sys.cbm 8 3300 259 94% 457 596.7 138 0.86 1.8% rec.music.gdead 9 3000 237 78% 255 526.4 85 0.84 1.7% rec.music.gaffa 10 4700 368 80% 261 794.9 55 0.81 2.6% comp.os.vms 11 7900 614 96% 494 1290.0 62 0.78 4.3% comp.sys.atari.st 12 3400 268 88% 367 540.6 107 0.76 1.9% rec.aviation 13 3700 292 88% 378 583.7 102 0.75 2.0% rec.sport.baseball 14 2500 198 80% 12 391.9 5 0.75 1.4% comp.os.os9 15 11000 834 94% 810 1696.0 73 0.74 5.8% rec.arts.sf-lovers 16 5700 448 89% 382 859.3 67 0.72 3.1% rec.arts.comics 17 3400 268 87% 265 441.6 78 0.62 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 18 4600 362 95% 305 592.6 66 0.61 2.5% soc.culture.indian 19 12000 902 85% 32 1478.3 2 0.59 6.3% comp.sources.games 20 4000 308 94% 234 490.2 58 0.58 2.2% soc.culture.jewish 21 12000 937 90% 890 1407.7 74 0.56 6.6% soc.singles 22 2000 154 66% 77 227.5 38 0.54 1.1% soc.politics 23 7700 598 95% 558 844.0 72 0.52 4.2% rec.music.misc 24 3900 302 94% 168 417.4 43 0.51 2.1% rec.games.frp 25 2100 162 94% 90 218.7 42 0.50 1.1% rec.games.bridge 26 5300 413 97% 308 529.8 58 0.48 2.9% comp.sys.apple 27 2100 162 75% 2 203.0 1 0.46 1.1% comp.org.fidonet 28 2500 195 88% 141 235.3 56 0.45 1.4% rec.arts.tv.soaps 29 8000 620 90% 328 741.9 41 0.44 4.3% misc.headlines 30 3800 293 91% 235 339.0 62 0.43 2.0% rec.arts.drwho 31 2200 174 84% 5 193.9 2 0.42 1.2% comp.sources.mac 32 1200 96 94% 52 106.6 44 0.42 0.7% soc.culture.greek 33 6300 494 78% 21 516.6 3 0.39 3.5% comp.sys.mac.digest 34 8700 675 88% 451 700.6 51 0.38 4.7% rec.autos 35 8900 696 95% 344 688.8 38 0.37 4.9% sci.med 36 4800 371 89% 231 368.1 48 0.37 2.6% rec.bicycles 37 3700 288 90% 10 290.3 2 0.37 2.0% comp.binaries.atari.st 38 3800 298 90% 134 283.8 35 0.36 2.1% rec.ham-radio 39 2200 170 88% 91 164.3 41 0.36 1.2% rec.railroad 40 6900 541 90% 290 499.8 42 0.35 3.8% rec.arts.startrek